CHESSBD walkthru - ICS telnet window

• The telnet textport. You can issue raw server commands by clicking on the telnet textport and typing.
• The chat textport. Shouts, tells, kibitzes, etc, go in the chat textport. You can type directly in the chat textport. Whatever you type will be sent to the server, prefixed with the currently selected chat prefix (see below). Nothing is sent until you type <return>. For example, if the current chat prefix is "tell chopper", and you type "hello" (followed by <return>), then the effect is to send "tell chopper hello" to the server.
• The chat prefix and chat input line. Typing in the chat input line has the same effect as typing in the chat textport. The currently selected chat prefix is prepended. Nothing is sent until you type . You can change the chat prefix by clicking on the chat prefix box and then typing the new prefix; or by clicking on the down-arrow in the chat prefix box and selecting from the list. In order to make it easy to respond to chats, the chat prefix list contains a response entry for each user who did a shout, kibitz, or tell that appeared in the chat textport. The list can become unwieldy, though. So you can choose more focused list by clicking the mini-button. The short list contains response entries for users who have talked to you, rather than shouting. Therefore it's easier to find the response entry you are looking for. You can toggle back and forth between the two lists by clicking the mini-button.